The Pirate, Volumen1Archibald Constable and Company; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London, 1822 - 346 páginas |
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... Triptolemus Yellowley was , and how he came by a name so singular . Old Jasper Yellowley , the father of Triptolemus , ( though born at the foot of Roseberry - Topping , ) had been come over by a certain noble Scottish Earl , who ...
... Triptolemus Yellowley was , and how he came by a name so singular . Old Jasper Yellowley , the father of Triptolemus , ( though born at the foot of Roseberry - Topping , ) had been come over by a certain noble Scottish Earl , who ...
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... Triptolemus ; the Curate , who was a man of some classical skill , conceiving that this epi- thet contained a handsome and classical allusion to the visionary plough , with its triple yoke of oxen . Mrs. Yel- lowley was not much ...
... Triptolemus ; the Curate , who was a man of some classical skill , conceiving that this epi- thet contained a handsome and classical allusion to the visionary plough , with its triple yoke of oxen . Mrs. Yel- lowley was not much ...
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... Triptolemus , besides a desire to bite , pinch , and scratch , on slight , or no provocation , were all consider- ed by attentive observers as proofs that Miss Baby would prove " her mother over again . " Malicious people did not stick ...
... Triptolemus , besides a desire to bite , pinch , and scratch , on slight , or no provocation , were all consider- ed by attentive observers as proofs that Miss Baby would prove " her mother over again . " Malicious people did not stick ...
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... Triptolemus Yellowley , and deemed him , in so far , worthy of a name of four syllables , having a Latin ter- mination , yet he relished not , by any means , his exclusive attention to his favourite authors . It savoured of the earth ...
... Triptolemus Yellowley , and deemed him , in so far , worthy of a name of four syllables , having a Latin ter- mination , yet he relished not , by any means , his exclusive attention to his favourite authors . It savoured of the earth ...
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... Triptolemus in learning , or the use he was like to make of his acquisitions , would have much gratified the ambitious hope of his affectionate mother . It is true , he expressed no reluctance to embrace the profession of a clergyman ...
... Triptolemus in learning , or the use he was like to make of his acquisitions , would have much gratified the ambitious hope of his affectionate mother . It is true , he expressed no reluctance to embrace the profession of a clergyman ...
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Página 29 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
Página 207 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach.
Página 143 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...
Página 26 - If strangers sometimes conceived that her fine features were clouded by melancholy for which her age and situation could scarce have given occasion, they were soon satisfied, upon further acquaintance, that the placid mild quietude of her disposition, and the mental energy of a character which was but little interested in ordinary and trivial occurrences, was the real...